The volume deals with the emergence of verb morphology in children during their second and early third year of life from a cross-linguistic perspective. It covers 15 contributions - each analyzing one single language - based on parallel longitudinal investigations of children with parallel methodology and macrostructure in representation. The main question addressed is: How do children detect morphology and construct first subsystems of verbal inflection? The focus lies on the transition from a premorphological phase to a protomorphological phase. The main proposal consists in the concept of miniparadigms and of their relation to morpho-syntactic developments in early first language acquisition.

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IntroductionDagmar Bittner, Wolfgang U. Dressler, and Marianne Kilani-Schoch Early verb development in one Spanish-speaking childCarmen Aguirre Early verbal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of inflectionsAyhan Aksu-Koç and F. Nihan Ketrez The emergence of verb inflection in two German-speaking childrenDagmar Bittner Early phases in the development of Greek verb inflectionAnastasia Christofidou and Ursula Stephany The early verb development and demarcation of stages in three Russian-speaking childrenNatalia Gargarina A case study of the early acquisition of verbs in DutchSteven Gillis Early development of verbal morphology in an English-speaking childInsa Gülzow Early verb development in one Croatian-speaking childAntigone Katičič Early verb inflection in French: An investigation of two corporaMarianne Kilani-Schoch Emergence of verb paradigms in one Austrian childSabine Klampfer Early verb developmentin Finnish: A preliminary approach to miniparadigmsKlaus Laalo Acquisition of verb morphology in Italian: A case studySabrina Noccetti Early acquisition of the verbal complex Yucatec MayaBarbara Pfeiler Early verb inflection in LithuanianPawel Wójcik